Dr. Sisley, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, stated in New York Times "PTSD needs to be treated in a multi-disciplinary way, drugs like Zoloft and Paxil have proved entirely inadequate and there is evidence from Veterans that Cannabis can provide systematic relief." (July 18, 2011)

District Court Judge Jim Reynolds blocked the implementation of key parts of a restrictive medical marijuana law in Montana that would deny access of the medicine to cannabis patients. Montana currently has had a medical marijuana statute for 7 years.

A published study is released by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, offering a statewide empirical analysis of the population characteristics of the medical marijuana community in California.

72 year old woman Elvy Musikka has been provided marijuana regularly from the U.S. Government, deriving from 1976 court settlement that created the first legal pot smoker. Elvy has been provided marijuana by the feds since 1988, or 23 years.

Governor Chris Gregoire (Washington) & Governor Lincoln Chafee (Rhode Island) submit a petition to the Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule 2 drug. Currently, as a Schedule 1 drug, marijuana is not able to be prescribed by a doctor because it is considered to not have any medical benefits. By being a Schedule 2 drug, marijuana will be seen as having medicinal value